Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Papers
(The median citation count of Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Social value orientation modulates fairness processing during social decision-making: evidence from behavior and brain potentials47
Beyond synchrony: the capacity of fMRI hyperscanning for the study of human social interaction47
The role of social isolation in opioid addiction40
A hierarchical model for interpersonal verbal communication31
How representative are neuroimaging samples? Large-scale evidence for trait anxiety differences between fMRI and behaviour-only research participants31
Neurobiological models of emotion regulation: a meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies of acceptance as an emotion regulation strategy30
Neural response to monetary and social feedback demonstrates differential associations with depression and social anxiety29
Childhood trauma, brain structure and emotion recognition in patients with schizophrenia and healthy participants27
Early and late neural correlates of mentalizing: ALE meta-analyses in adults, children and adolescents26
Leveraging the power of media to drive cognition: a media-informed approach to naturalistic neuroscience26
Patients with anxiety disorders rely on bilateral dlPFC activation during verbal working memory25
A feature-based network analysis and fMRI meta-analysis reveal three distinct types of prosocial decisions24
Beyond the average brain: individual differences in social brain development are associated with friendship quality23
Seven computations of the social brain23
A missing link in affect regulation: the cerebellum21
Eye contact during joint attention with a humanoid robot modulates oscillatory brain activity21
The orbitofrontal cortex, food reward, body weight and obesity20
Lasting effects of cognitive emotion regulation: neural correlates of reinterpretation and distancing20
Altered functional connectivity density and couplings in postpartum depression with and without anxiety20
Inter-brain amplitude correlation differentiates cooperation from competition in a motion-sensing sports game20
Emotional news affects social judgments independent of perceived media credibility20
Context-based interpersonal relationship modulates social comparison between outcomes: an event-related potential study19
Social thinking is for doing: the posterior cerebellum supports predictions of social actions based on personality traits19
Teacher–student neural coupling during teaching and learning19
Neural evidence for cognitive reappraisal as a strategy to alleviate the effects of math anxiety19
Are women more empathetic than men? Questionnaire and EEG estimations of sex/gender differences in empathic ability19
Consequences of prefrontal tDCS on inhibitory control and reactive aggression18
Inter-brain neural mechanism underlying turn-based interaction under acute stress in women: a hyperscanning study using functional near-infrared spectroscopy18
The default mode network and rumination in individuals at risk for depression18
Becoming the King in the North: identification with fictional characters is associated with greater self–other neural overlap17
Neural representation of the parent–child attachment from infancy to adulthood17
The cortical and subcortical correlates of face pareidolia in the macaque brain17
The neural underpinnings of intergroup social cognition: an fMRI meta-analysis17
The relationship between childhood stress and distinct stages of dynamic behavior monitoring in adults: neural and behavioral correlates16
Longitudinal self-concept development in adolescence15
Impact of exercise on older adults’ mood is moderated by sleep and mediated by altered brain connectivity15
An asymmetry in past and future mental time travel following vmPFC damage15
Emotion depends on context, culture and their interaction: evidence from effective connectivity15
Reported maternal childhood maltreatment experiences, amygdala activation and functional connectivity to infant cry15
Mu rhythm suppression over sensorimotor regions is associated with greater empathic accuracy14
Mortality threat mitigates interpersonal competition: an EEG-based hyperscanning study14
From scanners to cell phones: neural and real-world responses to social evaluation in adolescent girls14
Neural substrates of shared visual experiences: a hyperscanning fMRI study14
Experiencing happiness together facilitates dyadic coordination through the enhanced interpersonal neural synchronization14
Multivariate spatial feature selection in fMRI14
Patterns of brain activity associated with nostalgia: a social-cognitive neuroscience perspective14
Anterior cingulate gyrus acts as a moderator of the relationship between problematic mobile phone use and depressive symptoms in college students13
The role of objecthood and animacy in apparent movement processing13
Group membership modulates the hold-up problem: an event-related potentials and oscillations study13
Alpha-band EEG suppression as a neural marker of sustained attentional engagement to conditioned threat stimuli13
A systematic review of studies that used NIRS to measure neural activation during emotion processing in healthy individuals13
Sex-specific interaction between cortisol and striato-limbic responses to psychosocial stress13
Default mode network functional connectivity negatively associated with trait openness to experience13
Present and future self in memory: the role of vmPFC in the self-reference effect13
Trait self-control mediates the association between resting-state neural correlates and emotional well-being in late adolescence13
Recognizing humanity: dehumanization predicts neural mirroring and empathic accuracy in face-to-face interactions13
Contributions of fundamental frequency and timbre to vocal emotion perception and their electrophysiological correlates12
Situating language in a minimal social context: how seeing a picture of the speaker’s face affects language comprehension12
Neural correlates of successful costly punishment in the Ultimatum game on a trial-by-trial basis12
Morphology of the prefrontal cortex predicts body composition in early adolescence: cognitive mediators and environmental moderators in the ABCD Study12
Sexual dimorphism in hemispheric processing of faces in humans: A meta-analysis of 817 cases12
Social cognitive network neuroscience11
Neuro-computational foundations of moral preferences11
Effective connectivity of the human mirror neuron system during social cognition11
Default and executive networks’ roles in diverse adolescents’ emotionally engaged construals of complex social issues11
Neural mechanisms of reward and loss processing in a low-income sample of at-risk adolescents11
Brain activation during cognitive reappraisal depending on regulation goals and stimulus valence11
Increasing self–other similarity modulates ethnic bias in sensorimotor resonance to others’ pain11
Shared and unique neural circuitry underlying temporally unpredictable threat and reward processing11
Hippocampal subfield alterations in pediatric patients with post-traumatic stress disorder11
The brain network in support of social semantic accumulation11
Self-face and emotional faces—are they alike?10
Effects of compassion training on brain responses to suffering others10
Greed personality trait links to negative psychopathology and underlying neural substrates10
Neural indicators of food cue reactivity, regulation, and valuation and their associations with body composition and daily eating behavior10
Neural correlates of negative emotion processing in subthreshold depression10
Pilot study of food-specific go/no-go training for overweight individuals: brain imaging data suggest inhibition shapes food evaluation10
Subsequent memory effects on event-related potentials in associative fear learning10
Vicarious praise and pain: parental neural responses to social feedback about their adolescent child10
Increased amygdala and decreased frontolimbic r esting- s tate functional connectivity in children with aggressive behavio10
Gray matter correlates of impulsivity in psychopathy and in the general population differ by kind, not by degree: a comparison of systematic reviews10
Left superior temporal sulcus morphometry mediates the impact of anxiety and depressive symptoms on sleep quality in healthy adults10
Negative overgeneralization is associated with anxiety and mechanisms of pattern completion in peripubertal youth10
Confirmation of interpersonal expectations is intrinsically rewarding10
Unsupervised classification reveals consistency and degeneracy in neural network patterns of emotion10
Studying the precuneus reveals structure–function–affect correlation in long-term meditators10
tDCS effect on prosocial behavior: a meta-analytic review10
Not all errors are alike: modulation of error-related neural responses in musical joint action10
Social-specific impairment of negative emotion perception in alexithymia10
Effective cerebello–cerebral connectivity during implicit and explicit social belief sequence learning using dynamic causal modeling9
Optimistic amnesia: how online and offline processing shape belief updating and memory biases in immediate and long-term optimism biases9
Resting-state functional brain connectivity for human mentalizing: biobehavioral mechanisms of theory of mind in multiple sclerosis9
Orbitofrontal cortex connectivity is associated with food reward and body weight in humans9
Self-oriented neural circuitry predicts other-oriented adaptive risks in adolescence: a longitudinal study9
Thumbs up or thumbs down: neural processing of social feedback and links to social motivation in adolescent girls9
Activating the attachment system modulates neural responses to threat in refugees with PTSD9
Maternal sensitivity and infant neural response to touch: an fNIRS study9
A 7-Tesla MRI study of the periaqueductal gray: resting state and task activation under threat8
Neighborhood disadvantage, race/ethnicity and neural sensitivity to social threat and reward among adolescents8
Default and control network connectivity dynamics track the stream of affect at multiple timescales8
Causal role of the right temporoparietal junction in selfishness depends on the social partner8
Altered resting-state networks in adolescent non-suicidal self-injury—a graph theory analysis8
The hierarchical sensitivity to social misalignment during decision-making under uncertainty8
Interpersonal brain synchronization under bluffing in strategic games8
Learning faces as concepts improves face recognition by engaging the social brain network8
Mapping the ‘funny bone’: neuroanatomical correlates of humor creativity in professional comedians8
Stress-related hippocampus activation mediates the association between polyvictimization and trait anxiety in adolescents8
Depressive symptoms and social context modulate oxytocin’s effect on negative memory recall8
Functional connectome fingerprint of holistic–analytic cultural style8
Decision flexibilities in autism spectrum disorder: an fMRI study of moral dilemmas8
Oxytocin enhances basolateral amygdala activation and functional connectivity while processing emotional faces: preliminary findings in autistic vs non-autistic women8
Mother–child neural synchronization is time linked to mother–child positive affective state matching7
Dynamic computation of value signals via a common neural network in multi-attribute decision-making7
Relationalvsrepresentational social cognitive processing: a coordinate-based meta-analysis of neuroimaging data7
Prefrontal cortical thickness, emotion regulation strategy use and COVID-19 mental health7
Neural rhythmic underpinnings of intergroup bias: implications for peace-building attitudes and dialogue7
Correlates of neural adaptation to food cues and taste: the role of obesity risk factors7
Reconciling psychological and neuroscientific accounts of reduced motivation in aging7
A systematic review of implicit attitudes and their neural correlates in eating behaviour7
Brain activation during the observation of real soccer game situations predicts creative goal scoring7
Distinct neural couplings to shared goal and action coordination in joint action: evidence based on fNIRS hyperscanning7
Neurocognitive processing of infant stimuli in mothers and non-mothers: psychophysiological, cognitive and neuroimaging evidence7
Processing of facial expressions of same-race and other-race faces: distinct and shared neural underpinnings7
Reduced brain activity and functional connectivity during creative idea generation in individuals with smartphone addiction7
Gentle stroking elicits somatosensory ERP that differentiates between hairy and glabrous skin7
EEG alpha and theta signatures of socially and non-socially cued working memory in virtual reality7
The representation of mental state information in schizophrenia and first-degree relatives: a multivariate pattern analysis of fMRI data7
Altered functional connectivity during face processing in children born with very low birth weight7
Effortless retaliation: the neural dynamics of interpersonal intentions in the Chicken Game using brain–computer interface7
Stereotypes bias face perception via orbitofrontal–fusiform cortical interaction7
Alexithymia and somatization in agenesis of the corpus callosum7
The influence of prior intention on joint action: an fNIRS-based hyperscanning study6
Fear in the mind’s eye: the neural correlates of differential fear acquisition to imagined conditioned stimuli6
In search of the most reproducible neural vulnerability factors that predict future weight gain: analyses of data from six prospective studies6
Expertise influences congruency monitoring during action observation at the motor level6
Appearance concerns are uniquely associated with LPP amplitude to pictures of oneself6
Voluntary or reluctant? Social influence in charitable giving: an ERP study6
Computational methods in social neuroscience: recent advances, new tools and future directions6
Scarcity mindset reduces empathic responses to others’ pain: the behavioral and neural evidence6
Mind your step: social cerebellum in interactive navigation6
Neural changes in reward processing following approach-avoidance training for depression6
Distraction and cognitive control independently impact parietal and prefrontal response to pain6
The dopaminergic system supports flexible and rewarding dyadic motor interactive behaviour in Parkinson’s Disease6
Effects of transcranial direct current stimulation over the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex on fairness-related decision-making6
Invoking self-related and social thoughts impacts online information sharing6
Motherhood and theory of mind: increased activation in the posterior cingulate cortex and insulae5
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) targeting the postcentral gyrus reduces malevolent creative ideation5
Bidirectional understanding and cooperation: interbrain neural synchronization during social navigation5
Maladaptive self-focused attention and default mode network connectivity: a transdiagnostic investigation across social anxiety and body dysmorphic disorders5
Fathers’ involvement in early childcare is associated with amygdala resting-state connectivity5
Sex differences in the behavioral inhibition system and ventromedial prefrontal cortex connectivity5
Lacking social support is associated with structural divergences in hippocampus–default network co-variation patterns5
Neurobiobehavioral responses to virtual social rejection in females—exploring the influence of oxytocin5
The posterior cerebellum and inconsistent trait implications when learning the sequence of actions5
Social preferences correlate with cortical thickness of the orbito-frontal cortex5
Unpacking reappraisal: a systematic review of fMRI studies of distancing and reinterpretation5
Visceromotor roots of aesthetic evaluation of pain in art: an fMRI study5
Roles of the MPFC and insula in impression management under social observation5
Right amygdala–right precuneus connectivity is associated with childhood trauma in major depression patients and healthy controls5
Curiosity and mesolimbic functional connectivity drive information seeking in real life5
A multilevel examination of lifetime aggression: integrating cortical thickness, personality pathology and trauma exposure5
Touched by loneliness—how loneliness impacts the response to observed human touch: a tDCS study5
Brain responses to the vicarious facilitation of pain by facial expressions of pain and fear5
Neural correlates of affective stimulus evaluation: a case-by-case analysis5
Morphometry of the lateral orbitofrontal cortex is associated with eating dispositions in early adolescence: findings from a large population-based study5
Social goals in girls transitioning to adolescence: associations with psychopathology and brain network connectivity5
Emerging ecophenotype: reward anticipation is linked to high-risk behaviours after sexual abuse5
Brain microstructural properties related to subjective well-being: diffusion tensor imaging analysis5
Mine or ours? Neural basis of the exploitation of common-pool resources4
A multidimensional examination of psychopathy traits and gray matter volume in adults4
Connectome-based predictive modeling of Internet addiction symptomatology4
Neural correlates of successful emotion recognition in healthy elderly: a multimodal imaging study4
Incidental physical pain reduces brain activities associated with affective social feedback and increases aggression4
Neural responses reveal associations between personal values and value-based decisions4
Recruitment of dlPFC during dietary self-regulation predicts the transience of regulatory effects4
Low competitive status elicits aggression in healthy young men: behavioural and neural evidence4
The longitudinal role of family conflict and neural reward sensitivity in youth’s internalizing symptoms4
Establishing a counter-empathy processing model: evidence from functional magnetic resonance imaging4
Relationship between behavioral inhibition and approach motivation systems (BIS/BAS) and intrinsic brain network connectivity in adult cannabis users4
Relation of resting brain signal variability to cognitive and socioemotional measures in an adult lifespan sample4
Differential engagement of the posterior cingulate cortex during cognitive restructuring of negative self- and social beliefs4
Activation of the left medial temporal gyrus and adjacent brain areas during affective theory of mind processing correlates with trait schizotypy in a nonclinical population4
Enhanced sensitivity to optimistic cues is manifested in brain structure: a voxel-based morphometry study4
Perceptive and affective impairments in emotive eye-region processing in alexithymia4
Unimpaired social cognition in adult patients with ADHD: brain volumetric and behavioral results4
Early maternal care and amygdala habituation to emotional stimuli in adulthood3
Lesion evidence for a causal role of the insula in aversion to social inequity3
Mentalizing in an economic games context is associated with enhanced activation and connectivity in the left temporoparietal junction3
It’s who, not what that matters: personal relevance and early face processing3
Combined effects of neuroticism and negative emotional context on spontaneous EEG dynamics3
Transforming social perspectives with cognitive maps3
Development of the mentalizing network structures and theory of mind in extremely preterm youth3
Ideological values are parametrically associated with empathy neural response to vicarious suffering3
Multivariable pattern classification differentiates relational self-esteem from personal self-esteem3
Reduced neural responsiveness to looming stimuli is associated with increased aggression3
You are fired! Exclusion words induce corticospinal modulations associated with vicarious pain3
Meta-analytic activation maps can help identify affective processes captured by contrast-based task fMRI: the case of threat-related facial expressions3
Posterior medial frontal cortex and threat-enhanced religious belief: a replication and extension3
Development of social feedback processing and responses in childhood: an fMRI test-replication design in two age cohorts3
Shifting the sociometer: opioid receptor blockade lowers self-esteem3
EEG frequency tagging evidence of social interaction recognition3
Openness to Experience is associated with neural and performance measures of memory in older adults3
Antisocial behavior is associated with reduced frontoparietal network efficiency in youth3
Sinful pleasures and pious woes? Using fMRI to examine evaluative and hedonic emotion knowledge3
Self-dependent neural variability predicts recovery from depressive symptoms3
Distinctive roles of mPFC subregions in forming impressions and guiding social interaction based on others’ social behaviour3
Maternal dopamine encodes affective signals of human infants3
Socioeconomic and cognitive roots of trait anxiety in young adults3
Envisioning translational hyperscanning: how applied neuroscience might improve family-centered care3
Emotion regulation of social pain: double dissociation of lateral prefrontal cortices supporting reappraisal and distraction3
Efficient brain connectivity reconfiguration predicts higher marital quality and lower depression3
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